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Ito City / The Short Summary Of Ito-shi

Ito City is one of the exciting spa resort city in the Izu Peninsula in
Shizuoka Prefecture. Ito city is faced to the Pacific Ocean, so it has
spa and beach resort. Every year, thousands of people visit Ito City to
enjoy their resort life. So Hakusyu Kitahara, Tekkan and Akiko Yosano,
Kyoshi Takahama and many writers and artists has loved to spend their time
in the city.

Ito City was in the region of Izu-no-kuni (Izu Province) until the Meiji Restoration happened. Now it belong to Shzioka Prefecture.

Izu Province was the place of exile in the Middle Ages, so Yoritomo Minamoto
and Nichiren were famous deportees. Yoritomo might ran around the area
in his young age, and he met Yaehime a daughter of the lord of Ito, Sukekiyo
Ito, and loved together. But the father disagreed with that, he separated
them as he was afraid of the central government because Yoritomo was the
deprtee. Otonashi Jinja Shrine was the place Yoritomo and Yaehime met and
loved each other. After that Yoritomo married with Masako Hojo and he became
the first Shogun founded Kamakura Bakufu (Kamakura Shogunate), the first
samurai government in 1192. In addition, Nichiren the founder of Nichiren
Sect was condemned the Kamakura Bakufu to banish to Ito in 1261. In the
City, there are some remains of him. Renchakuji Temple was the Nichren's
place to exile. Moreover, Ito was the place of the tale of Soga Brothers
that tells how Soga Brothers avenged their father's death in Kamakura Period
(1185~1333). This story is one of the 3 most famous revenges in Japan.

In Edo Period (1603~1867), Anjin Miura (William Adams from Britain) constructed
two European Style ship first in Japan in 1605. Anjin was cast up on the
coast of Japan in 1598, and Ieyasu the founder of Edo Bakufu loved his
talent and he hired him in his governmet. Anjin told a lot of European
technologies to Japan.

Now Ito city is one of the most famous tourist citties in Japan, and there
are many exciting spa, wonderful nature and historical site in Ito City.
Please enjoy visiting Ito City.

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Ito City is one of the exciting spa resort cities in the Izu Peninsula.
So Ito city is one of the most famous tourist cities in Japan, and there
are many exciting spa, wonderful nature and historical site in Ito City.
Why don't you visit Ito City?